The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) reminded would-be mothers that they can avail themselves of a variety of PhilHealth benefits to help protect them from financial risk. PhilHealth acting president and chief executive officer Emmanuel R. Ledesma, Jr. made the statement in...
Emerging from a meeting with President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. in Malacañang last week, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced that upon the President’s directive, dialysis coverage will be increased from 90 to 156 sessions; the pay-whichever-is-lower corporate policy...
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)acting president and chief executive officer Emmanuel R. Ledesma, Jr. said that spouses and individuals who would want to avail of permanent contraception measures may do so through PhilHealth coverage. MB file photo “Kaagapay rin po ng...
With 271 affirmative votes, the measure mandating full insurance coverage to farmer-beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) during natural calamities was passed on third and final reading on Tuesday, Jan. 31. (MANILA BULLETIN) Approved during Tuesday's plenary session was...
BUSINESS TALK By PCCI CHAIRMAN WILLIAM S. CO Happy 2023 Chinese New Year! The Philippines is one of the most food-insecure countries in Asia. One of 10 households in the Philippines is food insecure, according to the World Food Program October 2022 survey result. Similarly, in the latest Global...
Globe Telecom Inc. has more than doubled its 5G footprint, ending 2022 with 70 cities and towns covered, versus 29 in the preceding year, the telco announced Wednesday, December 4. Now, the telco's 5G network is available in almost all of the population in the National Capital Region (NCR), Davao...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has filed a bill seeking to provide construction workers with mandatory insurance coverage in consideration of the hazards they face within their workplace. In filing Senate Bill No. 821 or the proposed Construction Workers Insurance Act, Gatchalian seeks to require...
A House leader has commended the executive department’s recent move to provide additional assistance to the country’s needy hemodialysis patients. Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (PNA) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo specifically hailed the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation...
Smart Communications, Inc. delivered the Best Mobile Coverage in the country for the first half of the year, according to the latest independent report by Ookla®, global leader in mobile and broadband network intelligence. Based on user-generated tests and scans in 2.3 million devices across...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, June 21 said she will refile the bill seeking free dialysis for senior citizens in the 19th Congress. Hontiveros has been pushing for the passage into law of the proposed “Free Dialysis for Senior Citizens Act”during her first term, the last three years of...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Is this the way media events have become? Clusters of people, their heads bowed to their gadgets, are somewhere else but not at the site. That’s the scene that I walked into when I finally went out of my “safe zone” and ventured into attending a media...
Senatorial candidate Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Thursday said the national government ought to defer the Philippine Health Insurance Corp.’s (PhilHealth) new contribution schedule amids the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Ejercito, who principally authored the and sponsored the Universal...
